No one in heaven or earth could have been found, who could have borne “the rigid satisfaction, death for death:” nor could we have produced one who would freely have taken our place. But God who is rich in wisdom and power, as well as mercy, by the union of the divine and human natures in the person of Christ, has raised us up a Saviour, and a great one, who is able to save unto the uttermost all them who come unto God by him. As therefore it was not man who had sinned, but his Judge who prepared the lamb for a burnt-offering, grace reigns in his salvation more than it possibly could have done, if the price of redemption had been spared. Sin is not only pardoned, and pardoned through a sacrifice, but through a sacrifice provided by Him whose province it was to take vengeance on the sinner.

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